> I hope every dev realizes by now that there's no meaningful difference between a git clone back then and using LLMs now.

Um… conscious intent? History? Integrity? Attribution?

> It's only plagiarism when people didn't publish their source with this intent.

Yes. And they didn’t. Unless they were public domain (which most libre projects chose not to be), they absolutely didn’t and I can’t begin to imagine how you arrived at your conclusion.